Top Ten Gifts For a Very Punk Rock X-Mas

Impact's 7'' single from 1982 is #11.

As far as holiday shopping goes, punks can be hard to please.

But don't fret, we are experts when it comes to the Christmas lists of this hydraheaded rock 'n' roll youth culture and its myriad subdivisions.

After the cut, we've got gift suggestions for everyone from crusty train-hoppers to straight-edge kids and dumpster-diving freegan bike punks.


10. Taxi Driver on Blu-Ray
Ah, '70s New York City: When Times Square was one giant trap house and the whole town smelled like hobo pee. If you saw the Ramones today, you would call them hipsters. So maybe it's time you reevaluate your worldview, hmm? Did Robert Deniro invent the punk rock mohawk? Would true punx buy (steal?) a VHS copy of Martin Scorcese's classic anti-hero masterpiece?


9. Bicycle
Put a tricycle under your kid's tree (or if you're one of those magick pagan faery types, your Non-Denominational Holiday Sculpture) and they'll be jamming up traffic in Critical Mass faster than you can scream "Share the road!" and/or "Get a job!"